Free World
Free World A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleSummer, 1978. Among the thousands who have landed in Italy to secure visas for new lives in the West…
Specifikacia Free World
Free World
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleSummer, 1978. Among the thousands who have landed in Italy to secure visas for new lives in the West are the members of the Krasnansky family -- three generations of Russian Jews.There is Samuil, an old Communist and Red Army veteran, who reluctantly leaves the country to which he has dedicated himself body and soul; Karl, his elder son, a man eager to embrace the opportunities emigration affords; Alec, his younger son, a carefree playboy for whom life has always been a game; and Polina, Alec's new wife, who has risked the Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin, Israel and Egypt are inching towards peace, and in the bustling, polyglot streets of Rome, strange new creatures have appeared: Soviet Jews who have escaped to freedom through a crack in the Iron Curtain.